Lynn Red-dy for Grave

(Cap tip to Mark)

Or
She Put the Grave in Redgrave
(More merit for Monty)
Lynn Redgrave, best known for her appearance in Disco Beaver from Outer Space, has died of cancer at 67. A member of the famed British acting family and tabloid fodder, the UK equivalent of the Barrymores, Lynn’s big break came in her Oscar-nominated role in Georgy Girl, a pudgy insecure woman - the beta version of Bridget Jones. She lacked her older sister’s inability to keep her big trap shut, and the two had a public spat when Vanessa referred to Americans as imperialist pigs. While Vanessa supported the PLO, Redgrave took the other side, going so far as to try to make Jackie Mason likable in Chicken Soup. Lynn considered herself a working actress, making some interesting career choices, such as The Happy Hooker, and tended more toward character roles, but she excelled, earning 3 Tony nominations, 2 Oscar nominations and 2 Emmy nominations. Other roles included the wife of mentally ill pianist David Helfgott in Shine, and her second Oscar nomination as James Whale’s housekeeper in Gods and Monsters. In her later years, she made a career out of airing the family linens on stage, describing her father as distant and her siblings as bastards, who would write plays as children, taking choice roles for themselves and having Lynn play a dog.